Experience Type: Top Excursions

Chopin’s miserable winter of 1838 in a Carthusian cell, and then the prettiest twenty kilometres of road in Spain. Then push on to Deià and Son Marroig for the half-past-three opening, when the sun is low on Sa Foradada.

La Seu has the widest Gothic nave in Europe, a Gaudí baldachin, and Miquel Barceló’s ceramic chapel. Closed to visitors on Sundays. Be there at ten; park underground at Parc de la Mar and walk everywhere.

The best-kept old town in the north, 365 cypress-lined steps up to the Calvari chapel, and four coves under a cliff a quarter of an hour away. Steps at eight in the morning or in the last hour of light — there is no shade on them. Sunday is market day: park at the Pont […]

The last headland: the Es Colomer viewpoint, a pine-shaded beach, and a lighthouse on a road cut into the cliff in 1863. Please check private car restrictions.

Three kilometres of white sand and shallow turquoise water with no hotel behind it, protected as a natural park. No natural shade whatsoever. Be parked by half nine in July and August — the approach road closes when the car parks fill, and there are occupancy sensors on it.

The 1912 narrow-gauge line climbs through thirteen tunnels into the orange valley; the 1913 open-sided tram runs down to the bay. Sóller old town now has a low-emission zone — park outside it.

Twelve kilometres of hairpins including a 270-degree spiral that crosses under itself, down to a gorge mouth two hundred metres deep.

Complete medieval walls you can walk the whole way round, the Roman city of Pollentia founded in 123 BC, and ten kilometres of shallow sand behind it. Park outside the walls. Add S’Albufera, the wetland reserve — free, a permit issued at the gate, and best at first light.

Twelve hundred metres of chambers, one of the largest underground lakes in the world, and a live string quartet playing from illuminated rowing boats. The reliable rainy day and the one children talk about afterwards.